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Ordered a new laptop.

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Sager 9262After 3 years of hard work, I decided to replace my trusty Sager 9750 (Clevo D900K) by a new Sager 9262 (Clevo D901C) laptop. This time I took a seriously over-powered system, which should give me some head-room in running multiple Virtual Machines. The laptop comes with a Intel Core 2 Quad 9550 Processor (4 cores at 2.83Ghz) and with 8GB of memory. I hope to receive this laptop prior to the holiday season. I did order my Sager 9262 from XoticPC in the United States.

It should be noted, that these laptops are designed and build by Clevo in taiwan, then rebadged by distributions such as Sager, Alienware and others.

New photo gallery using Zenfolio

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After having search a bit online for a new way to host my pictures, I stumbled across Zenfolio. This site allows me to outsource the management and updating of all my picture management. It also allows the re-branding and clean DNS connection between my site and theirs. The cost is not too high and the quality of the service seems very good.

I really like the management and the slideshow functions of their site. You can check out the main page of my photo gallery.

Duplo Horse Stables

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We where abroad travelling for two weeks in Corsica (France), and the weather wasn’t good a particuliar day, so while shopping I purchased this new set for Kaylee.

Here we have the cat (aka Mimi) and some more horses. She played with it in our holiday accomodation.

This box does contain some small pieces, so I only allowed her to play with the animals and the house. The rest is kept for another time.

Duplo 4974 Horse Stables

Duplo Farm

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This is the 2nd Duplo set we purchased for our daughter. We wanted a few more blocks to play with and the Horse and Cow where animals we see often.

Kaylee has started playing with this set and with the cool car. Yeah I know it’s a quad, but for a kid between 1.5 and 2 years old, having 4 wheels = car.

Lego Duplo & Kaylee

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Duplo 4972 Animals

Duplo 4972 Animals

Well, over the past weekend I purchased my first LEGO Duplo box for my daughter. It’s just a simple box, with a few animals and a Minifig. She’s having quiet a lot of fun identifying the dog and the sheep. She doesn’t yet recognizes the Calf or the piglet.

What is interesting is that the Duplo line of toys from the LEGO group where invented and first released in 1969. It has evolved quiet a lot since then.

Heroes (end of season 2)

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Last night, me and my wife finished watching the end of the 2nd season of Heroes. We watched 4 episodes including the end of season episode. It’s really a shame that they had to finish and abort the season on episode 11, due to the writers strike.

I felt that producers and the actors really tried to save the spirit of the show in the last episode, but the closure went way to fast and to many things felt untidy. It’s a shame. The only ray of hope, was to glimpse the opening of season 3 (aka Tome III “Villains”).

PS3 without Blu ray Drive

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Well, at last I’ve heard of an order of Sony PS3 units without Blu Ray drives. 200 PS3 units have been sold to the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) without Blu Ray drives. These 200 units will be assembled in a large compute node. I expect we will see some large supercomputer clusters in the TOP500 based on these nodes in the coming months and years.

With some wide margins calculations (based on the reports that 17’770 PS3 generate about 435 TFLOPS for F@H, and divide by two for the latest adjustements in calculations announced by the F@H statistics), the 200 PS3 units from EPFL should bring it to a 2.4 TFLOPS Cluster. That’s not enough to bring it into the TOP500 rating, you would need 5.9 TFLOPS to do so.

Other interesting links:

Build an 8 PS3 Supercomputer

IBM Cell Broadband Engine Resource center

iSCSI targets ordering

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On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 15:18 +0100, Klemens Kittan wrote:
> My question is will this be the order even if i reboot? Obviously the order of the nodes defines the order of the session. Will allways it be the same order?
I don’t think you can get a guarantee to always have the same ordering. It is much easier to create a custom udev rules.

/etc/udev/rules.d/75-custom.rules:

KERNEL=="sd[b-z][1-9]" BUS=="scsi" SYSFS{serial}=="00000000014defbe2755" 
NAME="iscsi1" SYMLINK+="some_name1" 
KERNEL=="sd[b-z][1-9]" BUS=="scsi" SYSFS{serial}=="00000000014defbe2756" 
NAME="iscsi2" SYMLINK+="some_name2" 
KERNEL=="sd[b-z][1-9]" BUS=="scsi" SYSFS{serial}=="00000000014defbe2757" 
NAME="iscsi3" SYMLINK+="some_name3" 
KERNEL=="sd[b-z][1-9]" BUS=="scsi" SYSFS{serial}=="00000000014defbe2758" 
NAME="iscsi4" SYMLINK+="some_name4"

And get the SYSFS number from you’re iSCSI disk using the udevinfo command.
udevinfo -a -p $(udevinfo -q path -n /dev/sdd)

udev gives you a lot of flexibility. Give it a try.

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OpenSolaris Build 66 released

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 For the past few days I’ve been trying to figure out how to use iSCSI on the OpenSolaris(Nevada) Build 65, but I had some issues with the GUI partition manager and the package selector. Luckly today I noticed that a newer build of OpenSolaris has come out. Build 66 seemed to have fixed my GUI and package sections error. You can retrieve the latest OpenSolaris Community Edition from this download link.

ISP gone

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I’m sorry, all my content disappeared on or around the 13th June 2007. 🙁

My ISP seems to have gone bankrupt and all services (10 years loyalty) where terminated without prior warning. So I lost my whole setup and all recents entries, email connectivity was also disrupted. I’m striving in getting a new website setup as soon as possible. Give me a few days…

Actually it took me a lot less time than expected to recover (at least getting a basic service back up). The timing between registering for a new web hosting solution in my local area (Infomaniak), getting my registrar to update it’s settings, installing a newer version of WordPress and making a brand new start… 🙂